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In response to Pat's post, there is actually not alot of work done in sociology that would
fall under the rubric of a sociology of economics.  Recently, Roger Krohn of McGill has
been trying to drum up some interest in expanding work in this area, although he has done
quite a bit of work himself in the past on this topic.
 
I don't quite understand Pat's assertion that a sociology of economics would look at those
who use a "unified method of reasoning," and that this would exclude many people who have
been labeled "economists" by themselves and others.  Indeed, an interesting sociological
question would be why those people (like Weber and Veblen, for example) have been excluded
from the discipline.  Yuval Yonay asked a similar question in his excellent book "The
Struggle Over the Soul of Economics."
 
Leave it to methodologists to try and define "economics."  A sociology of economics would
look at the social structures and interactions of people who engage in "economics,"
however defined.
 
Jonathon Mote 
Department of Sociology 
University of Pennsylvania 
 
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